32b' GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 



Livingston . 



Brisbin 



Chicory 



Emigrant .. 



YELLOWSTONE VALLEY. 



FROM LIVINGSTON TO CINNABAR. 



ITINERARY. 



Distance. Elevation. 



Station. 





Distance. 



Station. 



Elevation. 



10 

 20 



28 ■ 



4.487 1,368 

 18 4.082 1,427 



82 



87 



Daileya 



Sphinx 



Cinnabar 



Miles. "V 1 "' Feet. Meters, 

 meters. 



60 



GG 

 82 



4,916 1,498 

 5, 065 1 , "> 1 1 



5. 179 



1 , 579 



[By Wai.ikk H. Wkkd.] 



At Livingston tlie tram leaves the main transcontinental route and 

 passes over the Yellowstone Park branch of the Northern Pacific rail- 

 road to Cinnabar, a distance of 51 miles (82 km.). It travels up the 

 Yellowstone river through a picturesque mountain valley, with high 

 peaks on both sides. Those east of this valley and south of Livingston 

 are known as the Snowy range. 



That portion of the Snowy range seen from Livingston is really the 

 front of the Rocky Mountains, which farther westward bend north and 

 extend in a nearly continuous range to the Canadian line and to the 

 east bend southeastward for 75 miles between the Yellowstone river 

 and ('larks Fork. The peaks seen from the town show the folded 

 Paleozoic limestones dipping at steep angles northward and passing 

 beneath the less steeply inclined Mesozoic beds that extend outward 

 into and form the valley. The front of the range is characterized by a 

 fold, in general parallel to the Archean contact, the anticline being 

 often faulted, and west of Livingston passing into several en echelon anti- 

 clines with steeply pitching axes. The highest point seen south of the 

 town, locally known as Baldy, is a sharply defined mass of Archean 

 schist brought into contact with Carboniferous limestone by a faulting 

 of the anticlinal fold just alluded to. The general structure is shown 

 in the section (Pig. 1 1- A, p. .i'MY), which passes through this mass. 



Livingston, situated on the north bank of the Yellowstone river, is 

 one of the many towns of the West born on the advent of the railroad, 

 but rapidly growing with the settlement of the surrounding country. 

 The town is built upon an alluvial river terrace, (ait in the upturned 



